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Quotation by Vladimir Nabokov
In the first place, we must dismiss, once and for all the conventional notion that a translation "should read smoothly," and "should not sound like a translation" (to quote the would-be compliments, addressed to vague versions, by genteel reviewers who never have and never will read the original texts).
Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), Russian-born U.S. novelist, poet. A Hero of Our Time, foreword (1958).
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